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Canals and Navigable
* Joseph Priestley, Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways of Great Britain, ( Wakefield: Richard Nichols, 1831 )
* Priestley's Navigable Rivers and Canals, 1831 River Stour p. 597
* Inland Navigation ; or Select Plans of the Several Navigable Canals throughout Britain ( 1795 )
* Joseph Priestly ( 1831 ) Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, Throughout Great Britain, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
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" Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain " by John Priestley
* Online version of Priestley's Navigable Rivers and Canals
( 1969 ) Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers, David & Charles, ISBN 0-7153-4689-X

Canals and Rivers
The series has included the trio rowing up the River Thames ( similar to the 1889 novel also named Three Men in a Boat ), sailing from London to the Isle of Wight for a sailing yacht race, borrowing numerous vessels to make their way from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly, taking to the Irish Canals and Rivers and along with Dara's dog ( Snip Nua ), an escapade travelling throughout the Mediterranean to Venice and most recently attempting to find a boat to take to the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, where in response to an ongoing challenge between Griff and Dara ( who had each secured a boat each and who refusing to give it up to use the others ) he secured the Nantucket Lightship to use.
The Waterways of Britain: A Guide to the Canals and Rivers of England, Scotland and Wales.
Canals, dykes and dams were built routing the water of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers around the marshes, instead of allowing water to move slowly through the marshland.
Its position at the convergence of both the Erie and Champlain Canals as well as the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers, has contributed to many floods.

Canals and by
He is reputed to have named that locality, on the junction of two canals, " Little Venice ", a legend that was disputed by Lord Kinross in 1966 and by London Canals.
Incorporated in July 1920, Gilbert was primarily a farming community fueled by the rail line and construction of the Roosevelt Dam and the Eastern and Consolidated Canals.
When the Derby and Nottingham Canals were completed by Jessop and Benjamin Outram in 1796, they provided direct routes to the important textile centres of Derby and Nottingham.
See Canals of the United Kingdom for a list of the canals of Great Britain organised alphabetically by country, and lists of abandoned and future canal routes.
After they pulled out of the restoration scheme, they sold the house, which was bought by a member of the Cotswold Canals Trust, and transferred the ownership of the lock to the Trust.
James Brindley was employed as engineer and work got under way .” ( A quote from Canals, Routes and Roots, The Trent and Mersey Canal, by Peter Hardcastle )
West Riding County Council, who reported on its state in 1907 as part of the Royal Commission on Canals, blamed the inadequacies on the fact that the navigation was virtually controlled by the Great Central Railway.
The company traces its history back to 1860, with the publication by Henry Varnum Poor of History of Railroads and Canals in the United States.
The Trent – Severn Waterway is managed by Parks Canada under the statutory authority of the Historic Canals Regulations ( which outline and delegate the responsibilities for navigation, resource protection, dredge and fill operations, the operation of boater campgrounds, etc .).
It is now planned to restore these canals as a leisure facility by a partnership of Stroud District Council and the Cotswold Canals Trust with a multi-million pound Lottery grant.
The Crinan canal is a canal in the west of Scotland and is operated by Scottish Canals.
The Queen of Hearts is played by Maria Canals Barrera.
Despite this, in 1895, American astronomer Percival Lowell published his book Mars, followed by Mars and its Canals in 1906, proposing that the canals were the work of a long-gone civilization.
He won the seat of Regina by acclamation in a by-election held in March, and was immediately appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Railways and Canals.
The financial strain broke on March 7 when GTR defaulted on repayment of construction loans to the federal government, whereby the GTPR was nationalized and taken over by a Board of Management operating under the Department of Railways and Canals while legalities were resolved.
The Millennium Link, a project to restore both the Union and Forth and Clyde Canals, saw the two canals joined once again at the Falkirk end of the Union Canal, in 2000, by means of the Falkirk Wheel.
* New York State Canals: A Short History, by Daniel Larkin at https :// www. canals. org / store / New-York-State-Canals-A-Short-History-P109C29. aspx
* Abandoned Canals an essay by William H. Somers from Farm Collector. com at http :// steamtraction. farmcollector. com / Farm-Life / ABANDONED-CANALS-September-1964. aspx
A canal should be placed in an appropriate: Category: Canals by country sub-category ; if none exist, then the canal should remain directly in this category.
As a novice there, Arya attempts to master their belief that Faceless Men have no true identity by both throwing all her treasures into the water ( except her sword, Needle, which she cannot throw away due to Needle's symbolization of all she lost and left behind ) and posing as a girl called " Cat of the Canals ".
* Arya Stark, later referred to as " Cat of the Canals ", beginning her training by the House of Black and White ( The Faceless Men )
Impressed by his abilities, the company named him " Manager of Locks and Canals " in 1845.
Canals are usually fed by diverting water from streams and rivers into the upper parts of the canal, but if no suitable source is available, a pumping station can be used to maintain the water level.

Canals and James
In 1848 James B. Francis, while working as head engineer of Lowell's Locks and Canals company, improved on these designs to create a turbine with 90 % efficiency.
In 1848 James B. Francis, while working as head engineer of the Locks and Canals company in the water-powered factory city of Lowell, Massachusetts, improved on these designs to create a turbine with 90 % efficiency.
A song, " I Can't Find Brummagem ", was written by James Dobbs ( 1781 – 1837 ), a Midland music hall entertainer and collected in Victoria's Inferno: Songs of the Old Mills, Mines, Manufactories, Canals and Railways by Jon Raven, Broadside Books, 1978, ISBN 0-9503722-3-4.

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During his time as Minister of Railways and Canals, Dunning was a staunch supporter of Sir Henry Thornton, the U. S .- born Englishman who, in 1922 had taken over the presidency of the Canadian National Railways.
Category: Canals in Georgia ( U. S. state )

Canals and .
Canals are man-made channels for water.
Canals need to be level, and, while small irregularities in the lie of the land can be dealt with through cuttings and embankments, for larger deviations, other approaches have been adopted.
Canals have various features to tackle the problem of water supply.
Canals were important for industrial development.
Canals can disrupt water circulation in marsh systems.
Canals have found another use in the 21st century, as easements for the installation of fibre optic telecommunications network cabling, avoiding having them buried in roadways while facilitating access and reducing the hazard of being damaged from digging equipment.
Canals are still used to provide water for agriculture.
Canals, roads and railroads were constructed.
Two significant waterways not under VNF's control are the navigable sections of the River Somme and the Brittany Canals, which are both under local management.
The department of Earth was to be in charge of Agriculture and the agricultural sciences, Fire was to be in charge of the Military, Water was the department of the Canals and waterways while Air seemed to have responsibility for everything else.
Canals began to be built in the late 18th century to link the major manufacturing centres across the country.
Canals were the first technology to allow bulk materials to be easily transported across the country, coal being a common commodity.
Canals dug for the oil and gas industry also allow storms to move sea water inland where it damages swamps and marshes.
1929's La Belle Marinière Beautiful Lady of the Canals a / k / a The Beautiful Bargewoman still has some of the excessively-poetic dialogue, but is overall a realistic play about a love triangle involving a bargeman, his wife and his best friend and companion.
Alfonso de Borja was born in La Torreta, now a neighbourhood of Canals, Valencia – today in Spain – but at that time in the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon.
* Excerpt from the Illustrated London News, January 11, 1862 describing the Canals of Canada.
After the river's flow was under control, two major canals serving the western side of the Sacramento Valley – the Tehama-Colusa and Corning Canals.
Oneida Lake three rivers, as well as the Erie and subsequent Barge Canals are in the lake plain.
Second Army would assemble its units at the Maas-Scheldt and Albert Canals.
In yacht racing, a round-the-world route approximating a great circle would be quite impractical, particularly in a non-stop race where use of the Panama and Suez Canals would be impossible.
Smaller vessels ( up to CEMT class I ) can travel further northwest, north and northeast via the Centre-Loire-Briare and Loing Canals to the Seine, via the Canal de la Marne à la Saône ( recently often called the " Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne ") to the Marne, via the Canal des Vosges ( formerly called the " Canal de l ' Est – Branche Sud ") to the Moselle and via the Canal du Rhône au Rhin to the Rhine.
Canals could not be used in winter due to ice and floods, which caused damage that had to be repaired in the spring.

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